Calling all Downton fans—missing your weekly “Downton fix?” The aristocratic way of life that evolved at places like Downton Abbey was nearly ruined by the time we first meet the Crawleys in 1912. How did a few families come to own so much property? Why did Robert’s family need him to marry an heiress like Cora? Barbara Geiger, landscape historian and educator, will explore land ownership patterns, inheritance laws, and landscape designers that produced great estates like Downton, and why radical changes were ultimately inevitable.
Please register at glenviewpl.org/registration.htm, call 847-729-7500, ext. 7600, or visit the Reader Services Desk.
